... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last | Contents | Next Issue 27 The murder of Hilda Murrell: ten years on Introduction Clear cut examples of political murder, or state assassination in the mainland UK have been virtually non-existent. It is that fact which has helped focus so much attention on the deaths of Hilda Murrell and, in Scotland, of Willie McRae. Lobster got into this area relatively early, printing in issue 16 a long report on the Murrell murder. The report arrived anonymously and was too good to worry about minor details like who the author of the piece was. He turned out ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 16) June 1988 Last | Contents | Next Issue 16 Hilda Murrell: a death in the private sector This is the first anonymous article we have ever printed. However, we know the identity of the author and have absolute confidence in the person who provided us with the document. In places we have removed small sections, indicated by the use of brackets (- -- -- ), which provided personal details which would have made identifying the author easier than it already is. * * * During (- -- -- ) I was accepted as a member of the Institute ...

... Hilda Murrell and the FOIA Nick Must Whatdotheyknow.com is a site devoted to Freedom Information requests in this country.1 On it Josh Hastings is recorded as having made some FOIA requests to various bodies for material held on Hilda Murrell.2 The only response that yielded anything was from West Mercia Police, the force that handled the original investigation into the case.3 The document he received is what should be a fairly standard police report into an investigation, along the lines of 'the crime was reported at such-and-such a time' and 'Detective Constable Smith interviewed the witness and obtained the important information that … ' etc. However, about 90% of ...

... A Thorn in Their Side The Hilda Murrell murder Robert Green with Kate Dewes New Zealand: Rata Books, 2011; 210 pp., index, photographs, p/b , 40 NZ dollars O nce upon a time I used to know something about the Hilda Murrell case. At any rate, a piece about it without an author, therefore by me, is in Lobster 27. Seventeen years on from that piece, as I began reading Robert Green's account of the death of his aunt (who was a kind of surrogate mother, his biological mother dying when he was 19), I would summarise my knowledge thus: she was murdered; it might have ...

... monetary values, A. K Chesterton left approximately 16,000, Sir Roger Hollis 258,633 and Sir Maurice Oldfield 266,951. But the winner from this, admittedly random, selection has to be Anthony Blunt with an estate of 1,704,445. For further information see <www.oxforddnb.com> Hilda Murrell Further developments in the case of Hilda Murrell (also in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as 'environmentalist and peace campaigner'). Following a 'cold case review' by West Mercia Constabulary in 2002, a Shrewsbury labourer, Andrew George, was charged with her kidnap and murder in June 2003. In February 2004 two more men were ...

... K . Young is unlikely to object. Why not name Duncan Campbell, the person MI5 asked him to murder? Why recount the fascist activities and intelligence connections of 'Lutz' and 'the Major' without telling us that they are Column 88 leader Les Vaughan and Ian Souter-Clarence respectively? Finally, why spend two chapters on the Hilda Murrell affair without naming or exploring the background of her niece's boyfriend, 'Malcolm', also referred to as 'LM'? The book hangs crucially upon the Murrell section and contains an affidavit signed by her niece, Catriona Guthrie. Unfortunately, both the affidavit and Murray's account are clumsily phrased on the intelligence connections of 'Malcolm'. Nevertheless, ...

... only cover the period 1909 to 1949 so as to protect information still considered to be 'especially sensitive'. Care will be also be taken to ensure that SIS's commitment to protect the identities of agents and staff is not compromised by the book's publication. (Foreign and Commonwealth Office press release, 7 December 2005) ( [8 ] ) Murrell update Andrew George had another day in court on 9 June when his appeal against his conviction of the murder of Hilda Murrell was rejected by the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division.( [9 ] ) However a number of interesting points did find their way into Lord Justice Moses' judgement. 'There was evidence from a substantial number ...

... a significant degree of importance to senior Labour Party figures. Philip Murphy, 'By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth "Bilderberg Group", 1964-66'. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 33 (2 ), May 2005, pp. 245-265. Hilda Murrell case closed?Twenty-one years after Hilda Murrell's death, Andrew George was convicted of her kidnap and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment following a four week trial at Stafford Crown Court. ( [1 ] ) George, who was 16 at the time, living in a children's home and described as a 'known criminal', ...

... the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe - UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: 'Oh, you don't want to go there! ' The first agreed enthusiastically, and a kind of double-act developed: 'Mind control? ' 'Don't want to go there! ' 'Remote viewing? ' 'Don't want to go there! ' 'Hilda Murrell? ' 'Don't want to go there! ' After a couple of minutes of this there weren't many places where you would want to go; I think the Kennedy assassinations and the Wilson plots were still fair game, but that was more or less it. Anything which had been written about by anyone irrational or obsessive - or merely ...